within. the leave defense room. headlining this. deescalation turned on its head threaten syrian forces in its own . seems to have exacerbated the conflict. italy's former interior minister faces a trial charged with illegally holding $100.00 refugees at sea as the senate votes to investigate the anti migrant politician but. the german city of dresden commemorates 75 years since world war 2 bombing campaign which left 25000 dead we speak to a man who narrowly escaped the ordeal. there were bodies lying around everything was destroyed it was chaos because there were many refugees from poland.

that's why you don't know how many in fact died. good morning from moscow it's thursday february the 30. well the news team has been working on for you this turkey stepping up its involvement in the syria conflict president threatening to attack syrian forces in if another turkish soldiers targeted there but i guess they have reports of war stricken province and white believes it's holding all the cards. rebels and the islamists are facing catastrophe in the span of a little over a month they've lost a 3rd of their territory so you would understand why turkey which said which paid armed and trained those rebels as outraged at the gun is beside himself he needs to

vent the shrike out. the syrian regime as well as russian forces and iran by militants icing with it continuously attacking civilians committing massacres a kurd in syria might find strange of the guns concern for civilian casualties but russia took those accusations seriously pointing out rebels had launched ceaseless drone attacks on the russian base violated the cease fire again and again and again al-qaeda linked jihad it's control 90 percent of and who turkey despite promising to do so hadn't been able to separate from moderate rebels the statements made by turkish representatives about alleged russian military attacks on civilians in the edward discolorations zone are false the real reason for the crisis and ad lib

unfortunately is the turkish colleagues have failed to fulfill their obligations to separate the moderate opposition militants from the terrorists in these areas but the gun appears death ended mute to his own faults instead of explanation he's flooding it with troops with tanks with artillery vowing lesion for anyone who dares shoot at them. what there is we're determined to drive back syrian regime forces from our observation post by the end of february we will do whatever is necessary both on the ground and in the air without any hesitation and without any delay and egging it all on is washington apparently they've forgiven ever the gun for his little crusade against syrian kurds and have lifted their sanctions on turkish officials involved in attacking kurds they went further saying they stand with their god as he invades a sovereign state my condolences to the families of the soldiers killed in

yesterday's attack in the ongoing assaults by the assad regime and russia must stop i've sent jim jefferies to ankara to coordinate steps to respond to this destabilizing attack we stand by our nato ally. there are now 4 nuclear powers engaged in syria 5 if you count israel and they're fighting on different sides the danger of escalation is colossal and happened when an american convoy drove into a village where they weren't welcome. but this is our current village the americans came in and face resistance from the villages people who threw stones at them so the americans answered with bullets. a young man was killed and 2 were injured a 14 year old youngster killed to add insult to injury the pentagon in a statement referred to the villages as a pro acid militia and accuse the villages of occupying the village they live in

also the american soldier who apparently scratched himself as fide no need to worry they literally separately tweeted about that so there you go an ugly day in our glee war and as things stand liable to get a whole lot uglier still. there we heard from the executive editor of the new site 21st century wired dot com who told us that turkey should be doing more to deescalate the conflict not the opposite. turkey has not held its obligations on the saatchi agreement but also on the astonished agreement on the saatchi agreement the deescalation zones are not going to work if turkey doesn't. maintain its side of the bargain and in order to separate the militants supposedly from the regular moderate rebels we know in reality that there is no difference really between those 2 so that part of the agreement is neither here nor there but the because of this

there's no way to have deescalation zones on the a stunner agreement. if you remember back in the fall of 20 teen there were a number of things agreed and one of the key things was that turkey would assist in the liberation of the international road to damascus to aleppo road where the the m 5 highway to turkey has never done that and the reason none of these agreements are working is because actually turkey appears to be pursuing a parallel agenda and as long as it's doing that there's no way that they're going to meet those obligations and therefore the situation will become dysfunctional very quickly. a staunch anti migrant need and he is set to stand trial on charges of holding more than $100.00 refugees at sea for a week last august a majority of the senate voted for. it was stripped of his parliamentary immunity last month to face a court hearing his our europe correspondent peter all of. the former italian

interior minister salvation 8 will face trial on charges of illegally detaining migrants say. the senate voted by a majority to revoke his ministerial immunity for his time in office it all relates to an incident that took place in july of last year this was when the italian coast guard ship the. picked up around 140 migrants who were crossing the mediterranean from libya to. it's early some of those on board required immediate medical attention and they were taken off that left 116 passengers 16 migrants on board who were left there for days as material salvini demanded that other nations chip in and take them what prosecutors are saying is that in doing this. you know laterally that he repeatedly and really willfully ignored requests from

the prime minister of italy giuseppe conti to allow the ship to dock at an italian port. say a campaigner against migrants coming to italy putting himself up as one of the big defenders of the italian borders and saying that. the e.u. nations must do more to help italy when it comes to the my current crisis he will now be facing a courtroom on charges of having illegally detained these people he will in his own words be facing this trial well in his own inimitable style. i feel is my duty to the country italian people and to my children and i want to be proud of what it is to hold my head high our constitution says that protecting our homeland is a sacred duty for italian citizens as a minister as a man as an italian fighting people traffickers defending our borders and security

defending the pride and dignity of my country protecting italians from all the illegal migrants in the country is not a right but a duty for me along with greece italy has been on the front line of. crisis the 1st port of call for many desperate people making the dangerous crossing over the mediterranean. salvini faces a nother vote in the senate later this month that could see him stripped of his ministerial immunity again this time relating to another incident last year in all when he refused the migrant ship open arms to be allowed to dock it in italian

court what we hearing from the italian prime minister just said context is that the time material was obsessed with keeping migrants out of italy so best to sell the meat will face a call we will face trial on one count of having illegally detained migrants he may well see that double to 2 counts by the end of this month. it's a somber day in the german city of dresden which is commemorating the victims of a massive carpet bombing campaign it's estimated the 25000 civilians died in the raids that by british and american air forces 75 years ago to the day some historians now question whether it was a necessary move as the 2nd world war needed 10.

everything around turned into now i see a woman in her hands is a bundle it's a child she runs and falls the child disappears into the plains.

we've been hearing the story of a man whose parents have the foresight to take him out addressed and shortly before the bombings began and although he was only 5 years old at the time he still has recollections of what his family went through. but what i was of the mind of my father rented 2 small rooms for my brothers and for his mother in law where we were temporarily accommodated we were evacuated on february 11th and did not witness the attack ourselves if we had been in dresden we would have not survived in the city center if we the children had stayed with our parents as they would never have left the house and managed to escape the flames my grandmother and my 2 brothers went to the train station every day and checked if our parents were still coming if they were still alive or not. after 6 or 7 days i don't remember exactly they arrived from dresden and we were all happy and lived with 6 people in 2 very small rooms for 5 years the bombing started and the house was on fire the parents rushed

outside and took nothing with them others went back to their flats and they died in the flames in the narrow streets the flames were spreading so fast people were suffocating it was a simple struggle for survival after the attack no more no less for weeks afterwards the corpses were burned at the old market my father had to help there to from february to the beginning of may they started to clear some rubble and burned the bodies there were 6 to 7000 corpses burned at the old market 200 meters from here there are pictures of this there were bodies lying around everything was destroyed. we were 30 kilometers away dresden was bombed and destroyed we didn't know where our parents were and i know that they tried to survive during the attack a 70 year old grandmother suddenly had 3 children and did not know where her daughter and son in law were these are feelings that cannot be described the grandmother almost went crazy it was chaos because there were also many refugees

from poland and east prussia that's why you don't know how many in fact died because there were so many unregistered people here who were burned the corpses could not be identified as a historian and author michael jones told us the bombing raids on dresden lacked precision and were carried out on an excessive scale. well that's always been a controversial of right from the bombing itself on the 13th of february $945.00 dresden was a very beautiful city it was a cultural city so the question was was it really necessary there was a lot of the structure and i think it was excessive and with high end. right it would have been much better for a number of reasons if the bombing raids had been more target unless. had been. i think the scale of the station was unnecessary and very

regrettable. and of potentially crucial local elections in france next month president mccraw has a mutiny on his hands and as m.p.'s from his own party abandoned ship the french leader is also seeing his public popularity new lows reporting back from paris. in 2017 emmanuel mark calls you into power in france promising a new kind of politics with breakneck speed he set up a new party in power to a political new piece he went on to secure a majority in the national assembly but less than 3 years later the wheels already coming off the bus of important elections he's facing problems on several fronts firstly his government and many of its policies have proven them popular take pension reform which has sparked huge protests across the country.

those changes haven't only every day citizens even his own m.p.'s have questioned the plan. the desire for reform and the speed imposed have taken precedence over the government's ability to listen and consult with the fringe she's since left isn't the only one to have done so the only move party has suffered several high profile resignations and defections m.p.'s in ministers who may have once towed the line have begun to question the party's position there was a syndrome of us all being very well behaved because we didn't want to cause problems for the government but today there are lots of members of parliament who don't. want to play that role in a bid to rally the troops mccord invited his parliamentarians to the day telling them they should be proud of being perhaps a not too subtle reminder that they should fall in line khan's popularity since his

meteoric rise to the presidency has long been crumbling recent polls show that less than one 3rd of people in france view him favorably he's so unpopular the voters are expected to hand big gains to marina penn's national rally to green parties in france's municipal elections next month but corners also struggles with movements like the yellow vests 15 months on and not only the protest along the revolving they accuse mccall of being the president of the rich a title he has not surprisingly rejected but a new report by france's observatory for economic conditions suggests it's a label that perhaps should stay cool no one said france needed a. head of state it seems members of his own party and many citizens disagree with that enough to perhaps bring mark and his new politics crashing down. on. so many things less worse to come from across european politics journalist says

many within the on the move party have lost faith. or had of course a large majority it's always the case when a president is elected next elections for parliament his party his group gets a large majority of 318 if i remember well members of parliament which was a lot much more the needed but since then he has lost some 18 or 19 members of parliament people who are resigned to left. but. many people in his political party. supported him they don't believe that michael was interested. it's personal at least the president and he doesn't work with a spotty brady so we have seen so many people leave 1819 and his maturity is eroding so much that it becomes a bit dangerous for him politically speaking him into coming to use.

described as the intelligence coup of the last century it's been reported that the cia and its german counterpart rigged swiss made encryption machines back in the 1970 s. allowing them to spy on embassies and government institutions in 120 countries from a call to has more of the so-called project rubicund. the washington post is calling it the intelligence coup of the century the cia working with west german secret services pulling the strings of a swiss and christian company and stealing government secrets from over 120 countries foreign governments were paying good money to the us and west germany for the privilege of having the most secret communications read by at least 2 foreign countries it was a foolproof operation 1st called the saurus and later renamed rubicon for over half a century of the company crypto a.g.t. was a captain of the world's encryption industry based in neutral switzerland most governments

were quick to believe their secrets were in safe hands little did they know the cia and west germany's b.m.d. had co-opted the company's founder to create a backdoor into the world's best kept secrets in 1988 western spies had complete access to the egyptian president's communications with cairo during the camp david peace talks with israel a year later washington was spying on a rainy and officials during the hostage crisis and as late as 1986 u.s. intelligence was listening to libyan officials congratulate each other for the bombing of a burl in disco although the c.i. a and b. and d. weren't able to hook their main rivals russ. and china had enough foresight to look elsewhere for their encryption needs nowadays though those 2 are the scapegoats for all of the west's cyber woes. throughout our alliance every one of our countries has had side and high pitch attacks from russia some from china for washington it's

become a routine to point the finger at russia and china but it's not like u.s. intelligence operations have wound down since then on the contrary they've adapted . edward snowden is the 29 year old intelligence contractor who leaked top secret national security agency information revealing the incredible extent to which the u.s. government is monitoring and keeping records of not just our phone calls the national security agency has developed his built in infrastructure they could intercept almost everything. the national security agency there in the united states allegedly spying on quite vast amounts of citizens data the group transpiring president obama who is

reviewing the washington spying program has largely defended it although the program had not prevented a terrorist attack it was still vital to homeland security. the central intelligence agency has walsh control of highly classified documents and computer code about the cia's technical capability to carry out. into electronic devices things like android phones only phones and julian assange and london accusing the cia of devastating incompetence saying the agency has lost control of its cyber weapons doesn't matter who you are friend or foe. oh they're coming for your secrets but i have since we started talking about the n.s.a. always made it clear to the u.s. president that spying among friends is not acceptable and if you take wiki leaks vault 7 documents into consideration it makes operation rubicon look like child's

play the scope and direction of the cia's global covert hacking program its malware arsenal and dozens of 0 day weaponized exploits against a wide range of u.s. and european company products include apple's i phone google's android and microsoft's windows and even samsung t.v.'s which are turned into covert microphones even their own citizens are unsafe now increasingly we see that it's happening domestically and to do that they the n.s.a. specifically targets the communications of everyone ingests them by default it collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyzes them and measures them and stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest most efficient and most a valuable way to achieve he said and snowden took the revelations about crypto eiji even further comparing it with

a formerly secret $10000000.00 contract between the n.s.a. and a major u.s. computer security firm it begs the question what info grabbing operations are still going on right now under our noses and well with the passage of time former cia employee and whistleblower john kiriakou doesn't expect anyone to face prosecution over the reported operation. i can only speculate but we have a mandatory declassification law in this country where if information is at least 30 years old and it is not operational in nature that is it doesn't include information related to sources and methods that it has to be declassified and i wonder if that's really what this is all about that the information is old enough that that there's no reason to keep it classified anymore the u.s. has interfered in more elections around the world then any other country in the world and i wouldn't be surprised if it was more than all other countries in the

world combined this is something they that the u.s. does routinely regularly this may at least temporarily serve to take the attention off of russia off of china and other countries because this is something the united states does all the time not only will there be no criminal repercussions i would not at all be surprised if those responsible for this operation who are still in the cia or n.s.a. are not given medals for what they've done. i think claimed that a staple of the vegetarian diet is more damaging to the environment than eating meat according to early research by a british scientist if you look at tofu which is processed so there is more energy going to its production when you correct for the fact that protein in it is not as adjustable compared to meat based products you can see that it could actually have a higher global warming potential than any of the morning gastric animals to get

the same amount of protein tofu is worse i guess you didn't know tofu is a product and a good source of protein and it's been eaten by people in asia for thousands of years and it remains a staple food for many but for made famous in the u.k. it's become a challenge we spoke to the director of the sustainable food trust and dairy farm patrick holden. when you look at the nutrition we derived from tofu and you compare it with the nutrition which you could get from grass fed beef for instance grown in the united kingdom where i thought. actually the nutrition per. kilogram of the produce might actually be more efficient and more sustainable not about whether i should become or eat meat without asking the questions because it's just as important to us the questions about the plant elements as it is about the livestock both grettir and extinction rebellion need to know more about the

difference between unsustainable and sustainable agriculture livestock managed in a sustainable and ethical way are part of the solution or can be quite misleading not only the problem. the teenage environmental activist gretta tom burke has mentioned that has long called livestock production one of the main drivers of climate change but natural health scientist we spoke to believes that's one entirely true. most of that saw is genetically modified and is very real arms and extremely large amounts of herbicides i buy for sight and then it has to be transported from south america for example to to europe. the impact is is is is massive and i'm trying to put your fingers absolutely on accurate figures is difficult but i think we're now in a position where we can say that. removing livestock from the dot overall particularly when that life started has come from sustainable systems posture it animals that are men tending the soil that are also found on marginal lands that

cannot be used for our will farming is actually better for the environment than still relying on exclusively on using solar amaze as our primary staples. ok that's good news for now get more on line from the r.t. aff if you're on the roof this thursday up next on dangerous diets we'll meet the women being forced to overeat just to find a husband. in the wrong. roles just don't. get to. this day. and in again try to.

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